There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.

That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity.

I had a fear of being alone.

Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you.

The scripture that God used to save me was Isaiah 7.14, which today is still my favourite verse in the Bible.

God allows circumstances to build us up. God has got our back.

At first I was afraid, I was petrified, kept thinking I could never live without you by my side. But then I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong, and I grew strong.

All through my young life I wanted to sing, although nobody in my family knew it.

I've got all my life to live and I've got all my love to give

When I'm on stage, all is right with the world.

I have been to more than 80 countries, and there is not one-not one-that I didn't have women coming up to me sharing stories of overcoming major abuse, a bad marriage turning good, etc.

There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.

It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.

Every disability is imagined. Every achievement is an experience.

Next time you think of me like that , say my name when you come. It'll get you off even better.

No one who traces the history of motherhood, of the home, of child-rearing practices will ever assume the eternal permanence of our own way of institutionalizing them.

The truth is that you can spend your life any way you want, but you can spend it only once.

Although they like to call themselves journalists, that's a myth even they don't really believe anymore. They're mutts on short leashes.

When we approach love and creativity with the level of conviction that the powers-that-be in the world today are approaching hatred and destruction, then and only then will we have a chance.

An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.